2023-07-28 02:01:06
Updated Friday, July 28, 2023 – 02:01
The indictment includes new charges of obstruction and willful withholding of national defense information.
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Donald Trump asked a staff member to delete a recording of the surveillance cameras on his farm Florida to try to obstruct the federal investigation into the possession of confidential documents, according to an updated indictment that was unsealed Thursday, which adds new charges against the former president American and incorporates a third defendant to the case.
The indictment includes new charges of obstruccin and deliberate withholding of national defense information, compounding the legal peril for Trump as another possible indictment looms over him in Washington for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The additional charges highlight the scope of the year-long investigation into Trump that first produced charges last month in the form of a 38-count indictment against the former president and his personal assistant Walt Naut.
A Trump spokesman said the new charges were “nothing more than a continuing desperate and shaky attempt” by the president’s administration to Joe Biden “of harassing President Trump and those around him,” and of influencing the 2024 presidential race.
The confidential documents in question were taken by Trump to his estate in Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021.
Boxes in a bathroom and shower in Mar-a-Lago.AFP
The superseding indictment charges Trump with an additional charge of knowingly withholding national defense information related to statements by the former president about US military plans to attack another country made during a July 2021 interview at his golf club in Washington. Bedminster, New Jersey. The interview was for an autobiography that his former chief of staff was writing. Mark Meadows, who in his later book identified that country as Irn.
According to the indictment, Trump returned that document to the federal government on January 17, 2022. The document was labeled top secret and not approved for display to foreign nationals.
This marks a notable shift in the prosecution’s approach in the Trump case, accusing him of withholding a document the former president alleged was known to be highly sensitive after leaving office, and not just for failing to return it to the government when he left office. he was asked.
Both Trump and Nauta have pleaded not guilty.
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